They're all bastards. Skype is much better, when you're able to use it. (Although at the end of 2006 their policies will change and will suck.)
http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html
If you look at the case of the in-kernel framebuffer windowing-system
project FramebufferUI (http://home.comcast.net/~fbui), which has been
totally rejected for inclusion in the kernel, the case can be made
that actually the Linux "clergy" are choosing against a more
embedded friendly path. Embedded Linux is struggling now in the
graphics area, but the Marie Antoinette-like response from the kernel
gurus is "Let them use X Windows".
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I like the idea of stripping down an OS so that it is just a multiplexer, providing apps with a way of sharing the hardware. In such an OS, this "collaboration" is an application- or library-level phenomenon, not a part of the "OS".
And I don't see how a set of office apps, for instance, could be retrofitted (easily)
with such adaptive technology. They'd need a rewrite, IMHO.
Also: The author may be onto something, but I'm not sure even he knows what it is.
Because half the trouble I find with using technology is relearning what goes where.
Example: I hear a phone ringing. Was it my landline, my cell, the movie I'm watching, or Skype? Which do I deal with after hearing the sound? A computer won't fix that problem.
Technology *could* make things easier, e.g. a soft female voice says "call on your cell phone"...
But no one has throught of such simple solutions yet.
I kind of feel like Microsoft is either dead, or its limbs are dying while its head remains talking. Meanwhile the little companies are nibbling at the carcass of what used to be its market share.
But I could be wrong about that. After all,
I am using Windows now. But then again, I am using little of Windows except the core OS: I use
Firefox, Thunderbird, and Vim. The parts of Windows that I use could be handled by
many other OSes.
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Google, the new empire. http://malfy.org/
Microsoft is hard core. http://malfy.org/
The fun is here: http://malfy.org/
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Here tis: http://malfy.org/
It's here: http://malfy.org/
It's right here: http://malfy.org/
It's here: http://malfy.org/
Ever hear of the military-industrial complex? http://malfy.org/
OK, there's no silver lining. There's only M$ acting badly again. http://malfy.org/
No company's perfect! http://malfy.org/
E-firings are harsh. And yet, they do recycle my old batteries.... http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html
They need to overwrite the contents of the file with zeros.
They're all bastards. Skype is much better, when you're able to use it. (Although at the end of 2006 their policies will change and will suck.) http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html
It's made of cheese after all. The STUPID-1 probe should bounce right off. Unless it gets stuck in one of those holes...
If you look at the case of the in-kernel framebuffer windowing-system project FramebufferUI (http://home.comcast.net/~fbui), which has been totally rejected for inclusion in the kernel, the case can be made that actually the Linux "clergy" are choosing against a more embedded friendly path. Embedded Linux is struggling now in the graphics area, but the Marie Antoinette-like response from the kernel gurus is "Let them use X Windows".
Their mobile phone division is especially vile, in my experience. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html
They're no angels. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html
All right, it's only a short story... http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/sex.html
The gods demand that you view what AOL has done wrong! Well, anyway it will be interesting. http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html
Not to paint them in the worst light, but aren't these big companies just a little like Darth Vader's Empire? http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html
Also: The author may be onto something, but I'm not sure even he knows what it is. Because half the trouble I find with using technology is relearning what goes where. Example: I hear a phone ringing. Was it my landline, my cell, the movie I'm watching, or Skype? Which do I deal with after hearing the sound? A computer won't fix that problem. Technology *could* make things easier, e.g. a soft female voice says "call on your cell phone"... But no one has throught of such simple solutions yet.
The OS is just a hardware multiplexer. Anything above that level is called an application.
I kind of feel like Microsoft is either dead, or its limbs are dying while its head remains talking. Meanwhile the little companies are nibbling at the carcass of what used to be its market share. But I could be wrong about that. After all, I am using Windows now. But then again, I am using little of Windows except the core OS: I use Firefox, Thunderbird, and Vim. The parts of Windows that I use could be handled by many other OSes.
Anyway, check out what MS has been up to (the short list) http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html
Google's main rival is quite the evil company... http://home.comcast.net/~plutarch/malfy.html